IYP X Whitechapel, London
Candice Lin
The 2025 Whitechapel Gallery annual commission is from LA-based artist Candice Lin. This commission represents Lin’s return to London, nine years on from her first solo exhibition System for a Stain, held at Gasworks, London in 2016. Lin’s art explores marginalised histories, colonial legacies and the materials that connect them.
Through a research-based practice, Lin invokes and interrogates these themes, giving them sensuous reality through an eclectic mix of substances like tobacco, lard, opium poppies or cochineal bugs. In each case, she activates the audience within her layered installations, bringing detailed histories and research to life and encourages viewers to question the past, present and future.
Lin’s practice of telling stories through multisensorial environments has developed significantly through site-specific projects at Jameel Arts Centre, Dubai (2024); Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh (2024); 13th and 14th Gwangju Biennale (2021 and 2023); Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Milan (2023); Spike Island, Bristol (2022); and Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (2021).
Candice Lin has been generously supported by the Whitechapel Gallery Commissioning Council: Dorota Audemars, Erin Bell, Émilie de Pauw, Irene Panagopoulos and Nicole Saikalis Bay; and The Ampersand Foundation.
